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The book of life

'A million species of animals and plants are threatened with extinction. Three-quarters of the world's land and two-thirds of its...

A sobering if orthographically challenging and barely pronounceable Old English word meaning 'the contemplation of dust'. Not a question of...

When I look at old or ancient things which we still cherish, I sometimes ask what we are creating today...

Another angle on language and how it shapes or at least influences our perception of time. Here Adam Nicolson discusses...

A fascinating insight into how we fold our perceptions of time into language, or language influences such perceptions. It made...

A curious metaphor to describe two scenarios for the future, conveying the extent to which we can't predict anything. With...

Enjoy this charming project which invited children aged 5-12 to design and write postcards from the future,...

I like this concept of an inheritance as something solidly rooted in the past, but ‘willable forward again and again...

One of the pitfalls of globalization is the greater range for damaging stupidity which might formerly have been more easily...